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According to a recent IDC forecast, consumer standalone VR shipments in China increased by 166.2% year-over-year in the first half of 2022. China standalone VR in 2022Q1 reached 229 thousand units shipped, while 2022Q2 had almost 273 thousand units shipped. The VR landscape has had an increase in players compared with previous years, and many … Read more
Most quantum dot displays use a source of blue light (LEDs in nearly all cases except Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panels) but this means that you have to make the blue light emit from the display in the same way as the red and green light, which adds some challenges. In particular, more than you want … Read more
What They Say Bloomberg quoted “a person familiar with assembly operations” as saying that Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro shipments could fall short by 6 million units after the disruption in Zhengzhou, China that we reported last week (Foxconn Chinese iPhone Plant in Unrest Breakout). The shortfall is expected to be made up in 2023. The … Read more
What They Say UBI Research of Korea published a press release that said that there is a possibility that the investment in BOE’s B16 8.7G OLED line located in Chengdu will be further delayed. A member of the State Assets Commission, Beijing Municipal government’s regulations on BOE Group is the cause. Staffing for the line had … Read more
DPVR, a leading provider of virtual reality (VR) devices, has announced the launch of its newest PC VR gaming headset with the introduction of the ‘DPVR E4,’ which is aimed at dominating the consumer market for tethered PC VR headsets. In a different category altogether from standalone VR headsets such as the Meta Quest 2 … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Jon Peddie has written a farewell to Lenny Lipton – a real personality of the cinema and 3D world. We’re sorry we missed the news of Lipton’s death. … Read more
What They Say Visionox is planning to co-invest $1.5 billion on a new flexible AMOLED fab in Hefei. Visionox will have a 45.5% stake, as will State-owned Hefei Dongxin Investment while Hefei Xincheng State-owned Assets Management will take a 9.09% stake. What We Think Hmmm… I found this release apparently as a PR release (MT Newswires). While … Read more
What They Say MSI has teased a new 49″ 32:9 240Hz QD-OLED curved monitor that it will formally announce at CES 2023 and will be the 491C. What We Think Up to now, SDC has not publicly talked about this format of panel, but given the weak sales of what should be a world-beating technology, … Read more
What They Say Invidis published an article that dug into the ‘Frameless’ digital art experience close to London’s Marble Arch. The installation uses more than 50 Panasonic 3-chip DLP projectors to show digital versions of famous artworks after they were chosen from a short list of three projector makers. 80% of the projectors are fitted … Read more
AvanStrate Inc. (ASI), the global manufacturer of LCD glass substrates, introduces AvanRhino Cover Glass in their latest product portfolio. The new AvanRhino Cover Glass provides consumers with an exceptional drop and scratch performance, and finds versatile application for smartphones, laptops, tablets and automobile monitors. On the launch, Akarsh Hebbar, Managing Director – AvanStrate Inc. said, … Read more
News is a bit quiet today as our US friends recover from their Thanksgiving dinners and enjoy their retail experiences today. So we’ve got a couple of unrelated articles today – one about HUDs for vehicles and another from an event I attended yesterday run by ViewSonic and focused (see what I did there?) on … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research said that sales of smartphones on Chinas’ Singles’ Day on 11/11 were down 11% YoY as a result of the strict Covid-19 lockdowns. Apple was the main winner with the biggest discount for some years with the iPhone 14 getting below last year’s iPhone 13 offer while Xiaomi had the … Read more
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